The apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, where $43.5million was found in April, was bought for N360million by a company owned by Folashade Oke, wife of the suspended director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said this on Friday at a federal high court in Lagos. In an affidavit and […]
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A former minister of external affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has warned the federal government against publicly prosecuting the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, for his role in the $50m discovered recently in a private residence. His statement “When Ambassador Ayo Oke stepped forward to claim it on the part of […]
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Former governor of Rivers State and minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has filed a N500 million suit against Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, and Lere Olayinka, spokesman of Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti state. Recall that they both accused Amaechi of owning the $43 million which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation and former Governor of Rivers State, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has refuted the allegation of Governor Nyesom Wike that the $43m discovered in a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos, belongs to Rivers state government. The incumbent Rivers State governor had alleged at a press conference on Friday night, that “the money in […]
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The Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike, huge sums of money, uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in an apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos on Wednesday, belong to Rivers state. A court in Lagos has ordered forfeiture of the money. The fund which has generated a lot of controversies and […]
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